Randy Skoglund, Russ Fromkin, Michael Nelson and John Knopf held a wide-ranging discussion on the issues around privacy created by the trend towards cloud computing, where shared processing resources, software and information are provided to users on demand. Data protection, security and international laws were all on the table, including the proposal of an industry coalition to amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
More information about that effort is available at digitaldueprocess.org. For more on the topic, including a question from this correspondent on the relationship of the Patriot Act to data privacy in the cloud, head to the last ten minutes of the video below.
Americans for Technology Leadership will host a panel discussion “Privacy in a Clouded World” from 3:30 – 4:30 PM EST tomorrow, during DC’s “Digital Capital Week.”
The panel will feature Russ Fromkin, Intel; Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security; and Michael Nelson, Visiting Professor of Internet Studies, Georgetown. The panelists will discuss how cloud computing will impact privacy and how our laws need to be updated to reflect new technology.
The Institute for Policy Innovation has a new blog post talking about recent news articles about counterfeiting and piracy. Protecting Intellectual Property is important to ensure that innovation continues in the technology sector.
